I think I noticed one of my replies gone the other day. My thought, "Haha...I must have missed the topic by a mile."

"hides my reply posts"
These are the posts that you have to click to read, right? All things being equal, having to click on a post because it's out of favor makes it stand out more.

I will have to try harder ;^)

GODS HAIRY BALLS! what power??? I am flagging this comment so admin comes in and schools you on their policies and procedures. what nonsense!

Mike your statements are absurd.

I found this in the "David Hume" topic. I am saddened and disappointed, but not surprised. Power corrupts. The power to hide posts you do not like in "your" topics is another of the structural problems here. This was not an "original power" but was granted about a year-and-half into the Gulch. It took some burden off the Site Owners when it came to identifying and cleaning out trolls. It also opened the door to this.

I read Alan Ashinoff's hidden comments in "David Hume" and while I might easily debate several points, all of them were well worth debating. Disagree with Alan as I have, I never found him anything but high-minded, even as I was not. He responds well to those who do not. And this case, also, he made his points.

It would be a loss to the entire Gulch for Alan to leave just because DHalling was corrupted by power.

I disagree with khalling (who agrees so easily with d) because her suggestion that we be silenced in some topics because we have the right to silence others in "our own" topics ultimately destroys the community, reducing it to an archipelago of hostile islands. Like most of us here, I am not a big fan of community per se. To announce that "we are individualists" is ironic, of course.

Or perhaps that is the way it should be.

Perhaps the Gulch is better off with islands of conformity where you could read and agree but not post an argument. Hard to say.... It might be interesting to see how that played out.

Cmon, AJ.
I know I can be irritating sometimes, but we have differing opinions on some things.
I think the supression of opposing voices by an original content poster is a very questionable method for the Gulch, but those are the rules here at present. Its the original content poster's option.
Do you have a compromise suggestion to this way of doing things?
I'd like to hear it.

AJ-that's the point of POSTING.
You just used it! Post away-Db cannot hide anything you say on YOUR posts! Look, you are in the majority on this site. That you and Dale disagree is of little consequence. IF you want to debate Dale's posts-do so!
We all have the world to win around here-speak your mind!